06-11-2005, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by italcarguy
Yes, GTA Jr.'s were aluminum riveted together like the GTA. Only difference was the discplacement and some trim.
Alfa Romeo built GTA's on the production line with the other Alfa's in their line up. Autodelta got ahold of some cars and prepared them to different levels based on what customers wanted. They built cars both their own team and select private teams.
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I imagine many of these GTA's are referred to as prepared by Autodelta just because all the books say the Autodelta developed the spec for these cars ... hence my understanding that they also built them, i.e Autodelta designed the twin plug head, etc.
I also know of a 1750 GTV in NZ that is supposedly a Autodelta car and referred to by the owner as a GTAm ... but has no sliding block, no flares, no twin plug engine, etc. ... but it could still have once been prepared by Autodelta (heck maybe they serviced it once  ).
Thus personally I think the term that Andrew used referring to his car as a GTA Autodelta or Corse is hmmm, IMO irrelevant or incorrect. They are all just GTA's and some have been raced and others not used as originally intended ( ) and stayed road cars.
The correct term would be GTA with many homogated Autodelta race components and proven historically awesome (for us Aussies) race history, supplied to Australia via Autodelta.
Anyway not trying to critise Andrew at all, just seen a lot of this 'Autodelta' this and that bandied about recently ... bit like old Ferrari owners try and sniff out any race history to add provence to their cars, even if it was just a local insignificant hillclimb. There is NO GTA in Australia that is more desirable than the ex-Kevin Bartlett car and Andrew is one lucky man ...
Pete
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